I have a BP6, with 466 celerons in it - clocked at 75 Mhz each rather than
66. This gives me a pair of 525 MHz little fellas. They run fine under
2.2.13 (from MDK 6.5) without a hitch. They did cause kernel messages under
the 2.4 kernels "APIC CPU1 error" or suchlike. Dropping them down from the
78 Mhz they were at to 75 made them a little happier.
Overall, I think you'll be very lucky to get a pair of CPU's which will be
stable at 100 Mhz. As you have the BP6, you can increase the bus speed in
little jumps - just keep going up until they either get too hot or start
being flaky. Then back down one and things should be OK.
You have got some decent cooling fans in there haven't you....
Steve Flynn
NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst
* 01603 687386
-----Original Message-----
From: civileme [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:37 AM
To: Pascal Goguey; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] CPU question
On Friday 31 August 2001 01:59, Pascal Goguey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running Mandrake on a Abit motherboard (Abit BP6)
> with dual celeron. It looks like the smp kernel works fine.
> The celerons I use are quite old (400 MHz) and their FSB clock
> rate is 66 MHz. I was thinking I would upgrade to more recent
> CPUs (about 800 MHz each, 100 MHz FSB). But I was told that
> the 100 MHz celeron may not run an SMP machine. In fact,
> it may work on a single processor only., so there is (according
> to that person) no point in "upgrading".
> Does anyone have data about this issue?
> Does anybody use a BP6 with 100 MHz celerons?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pascal
Yes, the BP6 and a few other boards were the only ones that ever
made dual processor Celeron systems.
You can buy overclocking SMP certified warranteed Celerons from
....
err, the people who could help you are out of business
http://www.computernerd.com/whatwentwrong.html
Anyway, the original Celeron had the multiprocesing pins messed up.
The
moire recent ones had the pins disconnected internally (more
properly, never
connected at all). Intel was very cautious about letting the
Celeron compete
against its Pentium II/III/IV line and has always kept it crippled
in some
regard. Ity is likely that you _can_ overclock some celerons,
especially
older slower ones simply by kicking the bus to 100. A 300MHz
Celeron becomes
a 450 when properly cooled and placed on a 100MHz bus, but above
366, the
processors had to be individually tested, which is what Computernerd
did so
very well.
Civileme
<< File: message.footer >>
**********************************************************************
This email and any files sent with it are intended only for the named
recipient. If you are not the named recipient please telephone/email
the sender immediately. You should not disclose the content or
take/retain/distribute any copies.
**********************************************************************
Norwich Union Life & Pensions Limited
Registered Office 2 Rougier Street
York YO90 1UU
Registered in England Number 3253947
A member of the Norwich Union Marketing Group
which is regulated by the Personal Investment Authority.
Member of the Association of British Insurers.
For further Enquires 01603 622200
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
